The development objective of the Forest Protection and Reforestation Project for Kazakhstan is to develop cost effective and sustainable environmental rehabilitation and management of forest landsandas sociated rangelands, with a focus on the Irtysh pine... Vea más +The development objective of the Forest Protection and Reforestation Project for Kazakhstan is to develop cost effective and sustainable environmental rehabilitation and management of forest landsandas sociated rangelands, with a focus on the Irtysh pine forest, the dry Aral Seabed, and saxaul rangelands. The restructuring includes modifications to some of the project's indicators to better reflect anticipated project achievements. These modifications are mostly due to natural factors outside the control of Government or forestry authorities. Specifically, modifications to two of the project's five outcome indicators and three of the project's eight intermediate indicators are: the original project outcome indicator of 48,000 ha to be rehabilitated in Irtysh Pine Forest (IPF) was to be partly achieved with 20,000 ha of direct seeding, a highly experimental technology that was planned to be trialed during the project. The infeasibility of continuing direct seeding has also had an impact on the number of people employed under the project (another project outcome indicator); with respect to the project's intermediate results indicators, the expected survival rate targets also need to be revised to better reflect local conditions; similarly, the expected, end of project survival rate in the Dry Aral Seabed (DAS) will be corrected to 25 percent; and another intermediate results indicator measures the number of demonstration plots developed under the Rangelands subcomponent in Kyzylorda oblast.
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